In this week’s edition of Trends & Artefacts, we round up the snackable trends, stats and insights from around the world, including:

• London's Late-Night Dessert Cafés Are Booming

• Americans Are Snacking More, and More Often

• Blouge Wine Offers a Simpler Way Into Summer Drinking

• Explainer: workation

• Show and Tell Is Back, and Adults Are the Audience

Dua Lipa's Manifesto Library has opened inside Livraria Lello in Portugal, one of the most photographed bookshops on Earth. It features 100 books that have been banned somewhere in the world, sorted under the headings Control, Voice, Memory and Power.

Whether it is Reese Witherspoon, Oprah or Dua Lipa, celebrity book clubs work by attaching a famous person's taste to a list of titles and that list moves units. But is reading a banned book actually resistance?

So I looked social listening data in YouScan. While much of the conversation focuses on institutional battles, there is a distinct and growing cluster that reveals people bypassing traditional libraries and schools entirely.

In this week’s edition of Trends & Artefacts, we round up the snackable trends, stats and insights from around the world, including:

• Cash App Turns a Viral Wand Trend Into a Payment Product

• Pill Form Could Widen Access to Weight-Loss Drugs

• Decathlon Pays Cash for Returned Festival Tents

• Explainer: mallmaxxing

• AI Is Powering a New Wave of Return Fraud

In this week’s edition of Trends & Artefacts, we round up the snackable trends, stats and insights from around the world, including:

• Adults Are Ordering Off the Kids' Menu

• Modular Eating Is Reshaping How Gen Z Thinks About Meals

• Degree Hacking Challenges What a Qualification Means

• Explainer: diet fatigue

• Forgotten 2010s Drama Resurfaces on UK Streaming

In this week’s edition of Trends & Artefacts, we round up the snackable trends, stats and insights from around the world, including:

• Knix Brings Dads Into the Period Conversation

• Sainsbury's Swaps Brown Eggs for White

• Zest Maps Revives Social Food Discovery

• Explainer zebra striping

• Starbucks Revives the Unicorn Frappuccino for One Weekend

In this week’s edition of Trends & Artefacts, we round up the snackable trends, stats and insights from around the world, including:

• Americans Tire of Wellness Obsession Culture

• Birdwatching Booms Among Gen Z in Britain

• Privacy Is the New Luxury Signal

• Explainer: analogue bag

• The Snack Tin as a Wellness Ritual